Malware has come a very far way..
The internet is evolving, the techniques used by hackers are rapidly changing and thus making it harder to keep pace with them. Malware has come a far way since the launch of the internet, and nowadays it has become very easy to spy on someone.Lot's of people (mostly teens/young adults) find their way into breaking into your computer and stealing important data, such as bank account details, etc.. But they can also just peek very deep into your private life.
How do they do this? Using a Trojan Horse virus.
If you don't know what a Trojan is, think of it as if you left the backdoor open of your house, allowing anybody to sneak into your home, stealing stuff, and grabbing a key to the door so that they can return anytime without you knowing. Creepy huh?
The Trojan Horse virus primary objective is to allow a remote user(the hacker) gaining access to a victim's machine without their knowledge. Once that has been achieved, the intruder can do anything with the machine that the user can do.
The virus can perform a specific set of functions once it is executed:
- Logging every character you type and send it back to the hacker
- Capturing live feed from your webcam and microphone.
- Delete sensitive files and data.
These kids have a very big sense of humor, and love to brag about what they have hacked in the past. For example, they upload some pictures of the victim on a forum (usually people with the same interest) and then they openly talk about how ugly the victim is, how much porn he visits a day and often how he/she managed to scare him so much they called the police.
But frankly, the police won't do anything about it. And this is still infringement on privacy right?
So we'll have to solve this ourselves (protecting with software)
The problem is.. In the past few years, hackers have become very good at cranking out new, slightly altered, variants of their spyware, designed to evade antivirus detection. Basically, the trojan gets encrypted so antivirus products will detect some Trojans, but not all of them. 40 percent of the infected PCs that it spotted last year were already using up-to-date antivirus programs.
Make sure you have a safe firewall running, an updated operating system, and an updated anti-virus solution!
Spyware is a very big issue nowadays. With the upcoming technology, everyone can leap in somebody's life and follow every step they are doing. Want to know how to protect yourself against these kind of threats?
Visit http://www.youarenotsafe.net to raise awareness about this.
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